networking drivers · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
• F drivers/connector/
• F drivers/net/
• F drivers/ptp/
• F drivers/s390/net/
• F include/dt-bindings/net/
• F include/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/linux/etherdevice.h
• F include/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
• F include/linux/fcdevice.h
• F include/linux/fddidevice.h
• F include/linux/if_*
• F include/linux/inetdevice.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_*
• F include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/
• X drivers/net/can/
• X drivers/net/wireless/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/2] powerpc: fix typos and repeated words in comments
  2026-09-07 06:52 · 1 reply in 7d · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v6 00/15] ibmveth: Add multi-queue RX support
  2026-08-31 15:38 · 15 replies in 7d · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] powerpc: remove dead 440SP code
  2026-09-01 15:23 · 0 replies in 7d · Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2] powerpc: remove dead 440SP code
  2026-09-01 15:06 · 0 replies in 7d · Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Dave Marquardt <hidden>
  30 attestations (30 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Shaik Abdulla <hidden>
  30 attestations (30 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-31

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linuxppc-dev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] powerpc: remove dead 440SP code
  2026-09-01 · Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2] powerpc: remove dead 440SP code
  2026-09-01 · Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 14/15] ibmveth: Implement incremental MQ RX queue resize
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 12/15] ibmveth: Report MQ-aware RX counts in ethtool get_channels
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 15/15] ibmveth: Complete set_channels down-path and mq_fallback max_rx cap
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 13/15] ibmveth: Expose per-queue buffer pool details via debugfs
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 11/15] ibmveth: Add per-queue RX and TX statistics collection
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 10/15] ibmveth: Enable multi-queue RX receive path
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 09/15] ibmveth: Harden RX poll path with helpers
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 08/15] ibmveth: Add queue-aware RX buffer submit helper for MQ
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 07/15] ibmveth: Add RX queue register helpers for MQ
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 06/15] ibmveth: Refactor TX resource allocation in open/close paths
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 05/15] ibmveth: Refactor RX interrupt control for MQ RX queues
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 04/15] ibmveth: Refactor buffer pool management for per-queue MQ RX
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 03/15] ibmveth: Refactor RX resource allocation for MQ RX bring-up
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 02/15] ibmveth: Prepare MQ RX adapter data structures
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 01/15] ibmveth: Add MQ RX hypercall wrappers and call definitions
  2026-08-31 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 8/8] net: dsa: netc: add PTP one-step timestamping support
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 7/8] net: dsa: netc: add PTP two-step timestamping support
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 6/8] net: dsa: netc: enable ingress port filtering lookup by default
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net: dsa: netc: check return value of ntmp_ipft_delete_entry()
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 4/8] net: dsa: netc: use entry ID instead of pointer to track host flood rule
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 3/8] ptp: netc: export netc_timer_get_current_time() for cross-driver use
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 2/8] ptp: netc: remove unnecessary pcie_flr() call in probe
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 1/8] ptp: netc: use ioread64_lo_hi/iowrite64_lo_hi for 64-bit register access
  2026-08-31 · <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH] powerpc: remove dead 440SP code
  2026-08-16 · Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 14/15] ibmveth: Implement incremental MQ RX queue resize
  2026-08-14 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 10/15] ibmveth: Enable multi-queue RX receive path
  2026-08-14 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 09/15] ibmveth: Harden RX poll path with helpers
  2026-08-14 · Mingming Cao <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH net] ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
  2026-04-16 · Mingming Cao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-by
• STALE140d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH net v2] ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
  2026-04-17 · Mingming Cao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-by
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v3] ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
  2026-04-24 · Mingming Cao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-by
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3 10/20] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-07-06 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) Re: [PATCH net v3] net: dpaa: fix mode setting
  2026-07-18 · Christian Zigotzky <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE187d [PATCH 02/12] octeontx2-af: siplify rvu_debugfs
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE187d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE157d [PATCH 3/8] net: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH 04/14] net: mdio: drop unneeded dependency on OF_GPIO
  2026-03-04 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE171d [PATCH net-next 02/14] dt-bindings: net: dsa: add NETC switch
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
• STALE171d [PATCH net-next 03/14] net: enetc: add pre-boot initialization for i.MX94 switch
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
• STALE171d [PATCH net-next 04/14] net: enetc: add basic operations to the FDB table
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
• STALE171d [PATCH net-next 05/14] net: enetc: add support for the "Add" operation to VLAN filter table
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
• STALE171d [PATCH net-next 06/14] net: enetc: add support for the "Update" operation to buffer pool table
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
• STALE171d [PATCH net-next 07/14] net: enetc: add support for "Add" and "Delete" operations to IPFT
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>